Gosport hospital deaths: Families need Hillsborough-style inquests
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image captionThe families of Cliff Houghton, Dulcie Middleton, Brian Cunningham and Eva Page are calling for new inquests
Relatives of patients who died after receiving dangerous levels of painkillers at Gosport War Memorial Hospital have called for new inquests.
An inquiry found 456 patients died after being given opiate drugs at the hospital between 1987 and 2001, but no charges have ever been brought.
Four families told the BBC they have requested judge-led Hillsborough-style hearings with a jury.
The Attorney General s Office said it was reviewing the application.
image captionPam Byrne s stepfather Cliff Houghton died at the hospital in 1994
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Delhi Police’s panicky fortification of our national capital with concrete bollards, trenches, metal spikes and concertina wires against unarmed farmers reminds us of the fear in 1739 when Persian dictator Nadir Shah invaded Delhi after routing the Mughal army to massacre 20,000 Delhi residents.
One can understand the official nervousness after the Republic Day bedlam when a section of farmers rioted, causing heavy damage to the national monuments and injuring scores of policemen. However, such grossly disproportionate fortification may appear provocative, bizarre and intimidatory when the massive “Farmer Protests-2” have been quite peaceful.
GENEVA
Street begging has been made possible in Geneva. The canton’s attorney general, Olivier Jornot, has in suspended the application of a law banning it after the recent ruling of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) which condemned Switzerland. Geneva, ban on begging suspended
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After the condemnation of the ECHR, Jornot, now passes the ball into the court of the politicians: «it is up to them to determine whether they intend to repeal the provision prohibiting begging or modify it, for example by limiting repression to certain behaviors (aggressive begging, with children) or in certain places».
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